Justine Germo NZWEUNDJI

Biography

Dr NZWEUNDJI Justine Germo is a Plant Biotechnologist at the Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plants Studies (IMPM). Justine is the Deputy Director of Research, Valorization and Innovation of IMPM. She is bilingual with fluency in English and French. She is a gender advocate and science policy trainer with extensive experience in field work, visits, and travelled widely covering over 15 countries. She has over 18 years’ experience in vegetative propagation techniques including cutting, marcotting, grafting, tissues culture and molecular markers assessment. Justine is an awardee of the prestigious UNESCO-l’Oréal fellowship for her PhD research in US, Tropical Research and Educational Center, University of Florida in 2011, and Alabama A&M University in 2013. She won the prize of best junior research scientist of IMPM in 2015. Since 2017, she has been a member of the steering committee of the Africa Chapter of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA). She is actively involved in training of young researchers and supervising of students from Cameroon Universities. In early 2018, she received a postdoctoral research fellow at Geisenheim Hoschule University in Germany through TWAS-DFG. She is a 2022 fellow of University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS)/ She is a cohort 5 of the African Science Leadership Programme 2019. Justine is member of several scientific organization such as Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD); Cameroon Professional Research-Oriented Women” (CaPROW); Cameroon Bioscience Society (CBS); Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists (CAYS, as pioneer President) and Global Young Academy (GYA) where she served as co-lead of the working groups Open Science, Science Advice, Women in Science. She is editor of Scientific African (Elsevier) and Co-Editor of   a book ‘’Responding to disease outbreak in Cameroon: Lessons from COVID-19’’ published by Rüdiger Köppe (Germany).

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